This Week in WordPress #188

This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 29th November 2021

Another week, and we’re bringing you the latest WordPress news from the last seven days, including…

• What is Openverse and how can it get you free assets for your WordPress websites?
• ACF sends out an email which irritates some of their lifetime deal customers
• OceanWP – the fight from last week continues, but does more mud-throwing help their cause?
• The PHP Foundation gets $280k in donations to continue their work, Automattic is a sponsor
• Do you have any stories of clients asking for *urgent* changes at the most inconvenient time? There’s some in the show this week…

There’s a whole lot more than this, as there is each and every week, and you can find all that by scrolling down and clicking on the links!

This Week in WordPress #188 – “The day before Thanksgiving”

With Nathan Wrigley, Tiffany Bridge and Rob Cairns.

Recorded on Monday 6th December 2021.
If you ever want to join us live you can do that every Monday at 2pm UK time on the WP Builds LIVE page.

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https://wordpress.org/news/2021/11/wordpress-5-9-beta-1

WordPress 5.9 Beta 1

WordPress 5.9 Beta 1 is now available for testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. There’s some FSE, theme.json, Navigation Block, Gallery Block updates…

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https://wptavern.com/podcast/10-whats-in-wordpress-5-9-and-what-is-openverse

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#10 – What’s in WordPress 5.9, and What Is Openverse?

So WordPress 5.9 is just around the corner. Initially scheduled for release in December 2021, it has now been pushed back until January 2022.It’s an important release for a multitude of reasons, but perhaps the headline item is Full Site Editing. Full Site Editing, or FSE, will change the way that WordPress websites are built. Areas which were once the domain of template files and of developers will now be editable from inside the Block Editor…

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https://wordpress.org/news/2021/11/take-the-2021-wordpress-annual-survey-and-view-the-2020-results

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Take the 2021 WordPress Annual Survey (and view the 2020 results) – 1 month left!

Each year, members of the WordPress community (users, site builders, extenders, and contributors) provide their valuable feedback through an annual survey. Key takeaways and trends that emerge from this survey often find their way into the annual State of the Word address, are shared in the public project blogs, and can influence the direction and strategy for the WordPress Project…

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https://wptavern.com/acf-solicits-lifetime-license-holders-for-contributions-urging-them-to-purchase-annual-subscriptions

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ACF Solicits Lifetime License Holders for Contributions, Urging Them to Purchase Annual Subscriptions

The Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) marketing team at Delicious Brains kicked up a sandstorm over the weekend after it emailed its lifetime license holders, asking them to consider signing up for a discounted subscription. Despite Delicious Brains’ explicit promise that they would never be required to pay for ACF updates in the future, the sales email insinuates that the development team is in need of appreciation in the form of annual paid subscriptions…

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https://www.evernote.com/shard/s5/client/snv?noteGuid=bb22fc4b-3fb3-4899-929a-efa1ba6d3268&noteKey=e2d66f6364893b18dc9b7eaa3e03f061&sn=httpswww.evernote.comshards5shbb22fc4b-3fb3-4899-929a-efa1ba6d3268e2d66f6364893b18dc9b7eaa3e03f061&title=PleaseRead3AIncidentReport

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Please Read: Incident Report

On Saturday, November 27th, you may have also received an email coming from the OceanWP domain inviting you to try that same new product called Zeus Elementor.Unfortunately, it appears that the same individuals have spent their time and efforts to breach our email automation tool in another desperate attempt to plead for the attention of the OceanWP customer base…

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https://wptavern.com/ask-the-bartender-should-i-use-a-page-builder-or-wait-for-block-themes

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Ask the Bartender: Should I Use a Page Builder or Wait for Block Themes?

Before diving too deep into this, I want to clarify some terminology for readers. Some of the above uses of “Gutenberg” refer to site editing, a feature landing in the January release of WordPress 5.9. However, to use the site editor, users will need to activate a block theme. Currently, there are not many to choose from simply because this technology is under development…

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https://kinsta.com/feature-updates/site-transfer-tool

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Transfer Sites to Another Company with Kinsta’s Enhanced Site Transfer Tool

Thanks to different user roles, Kinsta customers have full control of fine-tuning user access to websites that belong under their accounts. This addresses the needs of all professionals involved in a website but leaves projects hand-offs still an additional procedure for which you had to get help from our Customer Support team…

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https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-12-0-focuses-on-cleanup-and-minor-enhancements

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Gutenberg 12.0 Focuses on Cleanup and Minor Enhancements

Last week, contributors to the Gutenberg plugin wrapped up the version 12.0 release just ahead of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. Most work is being pushed toward the upcoming WordPress 5.9 release, which has been postponed to January 25. As a result, Gutenberg 12.0 has fewer bells and whistles and more bug fixes and maintenance. However, the latest update has a handful of enhancements…

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https://torquemag.io/2021/08/expand-the-rest-api-with-these-wordpress-plugins

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Expand the REST API With These WordPress Plugins

The REST API is a universal exchange language that every website and application can use to communicate. It allows you to obtain data from remote sources, e.g., third-party apps, using the so-called HTTP commands – GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE…

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https://developer.woocommerce.com/2021/11/15/how-does-woocommerce-blocks-render-interactive-blocks-in-the-frontend

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How does WooCommerce Blocks render interactive blocks in the frontend?

As Gutenberg is starting to experiment with several approaches to render interactive blocks on the front end, for example using React, we wanted to share how this is currently done in WooCommerce Blocks…

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https://wordpress.org/plugins/layout-grid

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Layout Grid Block

A Gutenberg container block to let you align items consistently across a global grid…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=797p0reDhE0

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HappyFiles Pro 1.6 – Complete Rewrite (VueJS, Organize Plugins, Sorting, Search & Bulk Actions)

Version 1.6 is a complete rewrite of HappyFiles, the best-rated media manager for WordPress…

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https://wpbuilds.com/black-friday-cyber-monday-2021/

WordPress Deals Black Friday 2021 – Quite a few still going!

WordPress Deals for Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2021. Loads of great deals on one searchable / filterable page!

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https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/12/xss-vulnerability-patched-in-plugin-designed-to-enhance-woocommerce

XSS Vulnerability Patched in Plugin Designed to Enhance WooCommerce

“Variation Swatches for WooCommerce”, a WordPress plugin that is installed on over 80,000 sites and acts as an extension for WooCommerce. This flaw made it possible for an attacker with low-level permissions, such as a subscriber or a customer, to inject malicious JavaScript that would execute when a site administrator accessed the settings area of the plugin…

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https://ithemes.com/blog/wordpress-vulnerability-report-december-2021-part-1

WordPress Vulnerability Report: December 2021, Part 1

Vulnerable plugins and themes are the #1 reason WordPress websites get hacked. The weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report powered by WPScan covers recent WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities, and what to do if you run one of the vulnerable plugins or themes on your website…

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https://wpbuilds.com/2021/12/02/257-wordpress-business-bootcamp-series-1-episode-1/

257 – WordPress Business Bootcamp – Series 1 / Episode 1

In this brand new, and huge series of podcast episodes we try to re-learn everything that we know about running a WordPress website business. We start from the idea that we know nothing (which was a surprisingly small leap)…

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Post a job for FREE!

Post a Job If you know of a job in the WrdPress community, please feel free to post it here.It’ll go in this newsletter FREE OF CHARGE!

Not WordPress, but useful anyway…

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https://servebolt.com/articles/servebolt-secures-5-million-in-growth-capital

Servebolt Secures $5 Million in Growth Capital

Servebolt announces that Hawk Infinity has invested $5 million into Servebolt. This capital injection values Servebolt at $15 million…

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PHP Foundation Gains Momentum with $280K Estimated Annual Budget on Open Collective

At the end of November, prominent members of the PHP community formed a new PHP Foundation as a non-profit organization, “to ensure the long life and prosperity of the PHP language.” The founding members include Automattic, Laravel, Acquia, Zend, Craft CMS, Private Packagist, Tideways, PrestaShop, Symfony, and JetBrains—a group of companies with products that rely heavily on PHP…

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https://reclaimyourface.eu/new-german-government-calls-for-european-ban-on-biometric-mass-surveillance

SUCCESS! New German government calls for European ban on biometric mass surveillance – Reclaim Your Face

The newly-agreed German government coalition has called for a Europe-wide ban on public facial recognition and other biometric surveillance. This echoes the core demands of the Reclaim Your Face campaign…

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The Beatles: Get Back (TV Mini Series 2021) – IMDb

The Beatles: Get Back: With John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr. Documentary about the music group The Beatles featuring in-studio footage that was shot in early 1969…

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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/fighting-floc-and-fighting-monopoly-are-fully-compatible

Fighting FLoC and Fighting Monopoly Are Fully Compatible

Are tech giants really damned if they do and damned if they don’t (protect our privacy)?That’s a damned good question that’s been occasioned by Google’s announcement that they’re killing the invasive, tracking third-party cookie (yay!) and replacing it with FLoC, an alternative tracking scheme that will make it harder for everyone except Google to track you (uh, yay?)…

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/11/uk-orders-facebook-to-sell-giphy-rejects-metas-proposed-merger-conditions

UK orders Facebook to sell Giphy, rejects Meta’s proposed merger conditions

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today ordered Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy, saying the merger “would reduce competition between social media platforms and that the deal has already removed Giphy as a potential challenger in the display advertising market.”…

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https://www.betootaadvocate.com/advocate-in-focus/client-patiently-waits-until-455pm-friday-afternoon-to-request-another-revision-to-project

Client Patiently Waits Until 4:55pm Friday Afternoon To Request Another Revision To Project

A client has thoughtfully waited until the last possible moment to request a massive revision, despite having all week to answer an email.It’s alleged the staff at ‘Pump agency’ were just about to leave for the weekend when an email arrived in one of the account managers inboxes…